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,* ,f •C v-' ,./* s MEMBERSHIP DRIVE IS ON Wednesday evening at 6:15 o'clock About 80 men and boys gathered at ttie Y. M. C. A. at a kick-off dinner *nd with a 'hip, hip, hurray, boom, bizz, bang," the 1933 "Y' member ship campaign was on its way to ivhat Ray Boiler, general chairman, declares is to be the most successful campaign in the history of the "Y." And judging from the enthusiasm rampant among the workers present Chairman Boiler's prediction is sure to be realized. Report meetings are to be held on Friday of this week and Monday and Wednesday of next week. In the men's division, there are two organized teams, football teams in the east under Homer Latimer, and teams in the west under Leigh Strntegier. And believe us, or anyone else when they tell you, the battle between these two teams for most new members secured is to be some hot affair. Dismissal Wage Washington.—The hope that the dismissal wage may become a part of many industrial codes set up by authority of the national recovery act was expressed by the executive coun cil of the American Federation of La bor in their report to the annual con vention of the federation. The council called attention to the fact that in the brief which William Green, president of the A. F. of L., submitted in the hearing on the auto mobile code the dismissal wage was proposed. NEXT YEAR'S TAX RATE_APPROVED A resolution accepting the amounts and rates as determined by the bud get commission, authorizing the nec essary tax levies and certifying them to the county auditor, was adopted by city council at its last meeting. Hamilton's tax rate will be $5.66 per $1,000 valuation, as follows: Sink ing fund, .28 bond retirement, $1.99, and general fund, $3.39. The sinking fund rate will provide $17,494.66 bond retirement, $126,312.76, and general fund, $216,069.37. The Miami Conservancy rate will be $3.76 to provide $239,650. It had been reduced from a $4.98 rate. Shopmen to Demand Former Wage Rates Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS)—Reports compiled by the department of labor and industry show that August em ployment increased 7 per cent over July, and wage payments mounted 15 per cent. The largest gains in employment and payrolls were in mining. Anthra cite employment increased 8.8 per cent and payrolls 22 per cent. Bitu minous employment ganed 8. 6 per cent and payrolls 17.5 per cent. RENTSCHLER ON REPEAL COUNCIL G. A. Rentschler, Jr., of Hamilton, has been named on the special com mittee of district organization of the Ohio Repeal Council. The appoint ment was made at a dinner meeting Hamilton Ordinances '4* 1 -,*.1"' t: JjT October, the Ideal Month to Repair and Kerool Also the Time to Equip Your House With STORM SASH AND DOOR Do you know they cost but little more than screens, and what comfort and fuel saving! Ask anyone who has them Our materials are guaranteed to satisfy you in quality and price, ask tor quotation on your renovizing or new work. Also ask about our time payment plan. ORDINANCE No. 3384 To appropriate land for the purpose of tending, enlarging, improving and repairing the Waterworks of the City of Hamilton, Ohio. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Hamilton, Ohio: SECTION I: That the following described property be and the same is hereby appro priated to public use for the purpose of ex tfiidinK, enlarging, improving and repairinK of the waterworks of the City of Hamilton, Ohio, by constructing a new waterworks and softening plant for the distribution of water. t0 The Norwood Sash & Door Mfg. Co. FRANK ARLINGHAUS—Local Representative 435 Emerson Ave. Phone 27 situate in Sections 21 and 28, Town 2 North, Kanvce 3 East, St. Clair Township, Butler county, Ohio, more particularly described as follows Commencing at the northeast corner of fractional Section 33, Town 2, Range 3, Fair field Township, thence with and upon the northerly line of said section the following coui'MeH and distanced: South 68° w£.4t 334.62 feet: thence south If2' 80' west 4C2 feet: thence north 84° 80' west f.Cl feet to the northwesterly coiner of frac tional Section 33, Town 2, Range 3, Fairfield frowntihip: thence leaving the north line of tiaid section north 5" 58' west 180.13 feet to |i stone: thence north 65° 28' west 839.52 feet thence north 58° 8' west 618.42 fe«t to a jioint l.r feet north of the center line of the tenter pier of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company bridge over the Great Miami River, the same being in the center line between v of the Southwestern Ohio Council at the Hotel Gibson, Cincinnati. Announcement was made .at the same time that Phil N. Weiss, Cin cinnati, had replaced the late Charles L. Knight, Akron publisher, deceased, on the Ohio Council. Idle Insurance in Codes Washington.—The possibility that unemployment insurance, which has practically no progress in state legislatures or the federal congress, may advance by means of the fair competition codes established under the national industrial recovery act is visioned in the report of the ex ecutive council of the American Fed eration of Labor to the federation's annual convention in session here. The council said: "One code, the coat and suit, pro vides that the unemployment fund shall be continued as soon as condi tions in the industry warrant." MOOSE TO ATTEND DISTRICT_MEETING Hamilton Lodge No. 36, Loyal Order of Moose, has completed ar rangements for its members to at tend the big district meeting to be held at Cincinnati, November 5. The following committee was named to arrange for transportation: William Morscher, A1 Stephan, Stanley Hurst and Harley Simpkins. A large class of candidates will be initiated at this meeting including a number from Hamilton. The meeting will be attended by James J. Davis, director-general of the order A1 Lad ner, past supreme dictator Malcolm Giles, supreme secretary, and many state officers. No one for his own happiness has a ight to do a thing which would in jure an ideal by which the rest of us live.—Knispel. Legal Advertisements V"' tracks, and also the point of beginning: thence south 80" east a distance of 1364.4 feet thence south 38° 25' west 3516.22 feet to point 15 feet distant from the top of a high bank of what was formerly the bed of the old Miumi River: thence north 75° 33' west 238.2 feet: thence north 87" 46',-' west 188.41 feet: thence north 75" 18Va' west 151.7 feet: thence south 71° 36'V west 515.23 feet: thence north 51° 35' west 410.1 feet to the center line be tween tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail road thence with and upon said center line between tracks north 38° 25' east a distance of 3407.04 feet to the point of beginning containing 96.46 acres of land, excepting therefrom 2.33 acres in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad right of way, leaving a total of 94.13 acres, of which 44.1 acres are in Section 21, Town 2, Range i. St. Clair Township, and 50.03 acres are in Section 28, Town 2, Range 3 St. Clair Township, Butler County, Ohio and that the fee simple title to the above described real estate be appropriated. SECTION II: That the Director of Law be and he is hereby authorized and directed to apply to a court of competent jurisdiction to have a jury impaneled to make inquiry into and assesa the compensation to be paid for such property. SECTION III: That the cost and expense of said appropriation be paid out of the reve nues of the waterworks fund, the moneys to be appropriated for such purpose. SECTION IV: This ordinance shall take effect and be in force and effect from and after the earliest period allowed by the Char ter of the City of Hamilton, Ohio. Passed: October 4, 1933. R. H. BURKE, ,- ..'„-V r- HETTERICH QUOTES FIGURES ON OLD AGE PENSIONS To the Editor of The Butler County Press: I think it is plain to all thinking men and women that the poorhouse is expensive, ineffective and unnecessarily unnatural. The plan of state-paid pension is much to be preferred. Let us look in detail at the figures of the various states which now have old age pension payments. The table sets forth the average annual pensions, the average annual cost of poorhouse care and the saving to the taxpayer. The poorhouse statistics are taken from the report of recent poorhouse itivestigation by the United States Department of Labor. They include the cost of maintenance, plus the annual investment cost of buildings and land figured at 6 per cent. Depreciation has not been included. Mayor. Attest: ADELE EDMONDS. Gl«rk of Council. Oct.lW» I Average Saving to annual cost of taxpayer Average poorhouse care for State annual pension per inmate pensioner California $275.28 $484.12 $208.84 Delaware 113.91 495.62 381.71 Idaho 132.21 528.52 396.31 Kentucky 60.00 295.96 235.95 Maryland 332.38 459.79 127.41 Massachusetts 312.00 539.33 227.33 192.3(3 631.36 439.50 158.35 634.19 475.84 Nevada 300.00 949.16 649.16 New Hampshire 232.71) 503.72 270.93 177.GO 479.86 302.26 302.88 405.59 102.71 11C.7G 512.23 395.57 Wisconsin 170.66 908.68 738.02 Yours respectfully, HARRY W. HETTERICH, Secretary, Butler Aerie No. 407, Fraternal Order of Eagles. MOOSE WOMEN BACK OLD AGE PENSIONS Hamilton Chapter No. 28, Women of the Moose, at their regular meet ing: in Moose hall, voted to support and do all in their power to advance the old age pension movement. Plans were made to attend the district meeting at Cincinnati, November 5. Plans for a euchre party, to be given at the hall October 16, were made. The following committee will be in charge: Clara Booker, Mary Klingler, Emma Motzer, Elizabeth Schneider, Freda Hoppe, Marie Eins feld, Elizabeth Jackson and Jennie Motzer. A social time and refreshments are scheduled to follow the next meeting, October 19. The committee on ar rangements is: Elizabeth Jackson, Ella Nusbaum, Emma Motzer, Jennie Motzer, Josephine Monoco and Eliza beth Schneider. ELKS MAKE DRIVE FOR NEWMEMBERS In conjunction with Elks lodges all over the United States, Hamilton Lodge No. 93, B. P. O. E., will initiate a special class on Armistice Day. At the last regular meeting of the local lodge a committee was appointed to plan a drive to obtain a class of can didates for this initiation, and all members are asked to co-operate with the committee by turning in the names of prospective candidates. It is hoped to make this Armistice Day class one of the largest ever initiated by Lorge No. 93. BENEFITS Paid by Trade Unions Reach Huge Total Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Trade unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor last year paid the astonishing total of $51,448, 348,73 in death, sick, unemployment, old age and other benefits, the A. F. of L. executive council reported to the annual convention here. The fig ure represented an average expendi ture of $1,000,000 a week, and was greatly in excess of the large total paid in benefits in 1931. More than $17,500,000 was expend ed in death benefits, more than ,000,000 in sick benefits, more than $6,000,000 in old age pensions and more than $4,000,000 in disability benefits. "The greatest individual benefit payment," the executive council's report said, "was that of unemploy ment benefits, a total of $19,970,556. 886 having been expended in this one form of benefit alone. This repres sers a spirit and degree of self sacrifice unknown in any circles other than trade union circles. It repre sents the extent to which members of the trade union movement have voluntarily assessed themselves in a substantial form to provide out-of work benefits for their idle brothers. It is a splendid manifestation of trade union sacrifice." The total paid in benefits in 1931 was reported to the Cincinnati con vention last November as $39,961, 873.14. Still At It! Meeting the local doctor, Brown in quired: "How is the lawyer going on doctor?" "Poor fellow!" returned the medico with a shake of the head, "he's lying at death's door." "There's grit for you," commented Brown, "at death's door—and still lying!" Beware of too sublime a sense Of your own worth ai\d consequence o w e THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS NEWLY DECORATED LABOR TEMPLE To Be Opened Formally Sat urday With Grand Euchre and Card Party Saturday is to be a gala occasion at the labor temple, South Second street, and the cause is the formal opening, inspection and celebration over the newly decorated entire in terior of Hamilton organized labor's home. And to say the decorating and remodeling has been done in a fine manner is just putting it mildly. Hamilton's labor temple on the in terior, is without doubt one of the most beautiful labor homes in the country, yes, and as president of Trades Council, Charles Hosea, says, and he covers more territory, the most beautiful in the world. And, after seeing it one is inclined to agree with our worthy president. And this beautiful interior decora tion was only made possible by the faithful loyalty to the cause on the part of a number of the members of unions of eight different crafts, who gave during the past three months 1,500 hours of labor, and to the gen erosity of merchants and .material and supply dealers donating several hundred dollars' worth of paint, wall paper and building material. The crafts donating labor were: Plumbers, steam fitters, carpenters, painters, paperhangers, plasterers, cement finishers and electricians. The Triangle Sign Co. painted scenery over a fireplace, and the Hamilton Sign Co. donated a sign for over the main entrance. The firms who donated paint are: The Horn-Kraus Co., Hamilton Paint and Glass Co., E. A. Ralston, Spran dle & Son, George Harris, Duerr & Zettler, Evans and Eversman, William Kalberer, V. B. Emminger, Edward Penney, Roemer Hardware Co. and East Hamilton Hardware Co. Wall paper was furnished by C. M. Henkel. Building materials were furnished by The Butler County Lumber Co., The Spoerl Hardware Co., The Wil liam B. Wick Lumber Co., Wirtz Coal Co., Martin Lingler Coal Co., Nor wood Sash and Door Co., and the Schneider Drug Co. And to celebrate the opening on Saturday, a grand euchre and card party will be held, both afternoon and evening, sponsored by the Women's Union Label League. Euchre, pinochle, five hundred, and other games will be played. A fine lunch will be serv ed, and different forms of entertain ment provided. Handsome prizes will be awarded winners in the games. Everybody, the public in general, is invited to come Saturday to visit and inspect labor's newly decorated and renovated home. ILLNESS Made Big Rise Among Idle, Survey Reveals New York City (ILNS)—Unem ployment resulted in an increase o:f 83 per cent in illness among 4,501' New York city families on the Eas: Side between 1930 and 1932, the Nev* York Association for Improving tht Condition of the Poor reports. The findings are based upon tw surveys made by the association through its Mulberry Health Center, the first in 1930, at the end of thi first year of the depression and th« second in 1932, during the third yeai of the depression. In 1930 one or more persons wer* found to be sick in 1,049 families, oi 24 per cent of all the households re porting. In 1932 the number of fami lies with one or more persons sic} had increased to 1,741, or 39 per cen' of all the reporting households, a 6 per cent increase in the propoi'tion o households reporting sickness. Paral lei with these figures, there was ai increase for the same period of 6 per cent in the proportion of wag earners' householders reporting n full-time work. The relation between unemplyomen and sickness is also indicated by th fact that the sickness rate per 1,00' population rose from 70 in 1930 to 12. in 1932, or 83 per cent, while the idle ness rates increased from 198 pe 1000 wage earners in 1930 to 289 i 1932. a rise of 46 per cent. The greatest sufferers from the d* pression have been children. Out o every 1,000 children enumerated, 26 were found to be ill in 1932, as conr pared with 911 in 1030, an increase 185 per cent. LABOR URGED To Insist Congress Continue Adequate U. S. Aid Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Ins is! ence by organized labor that con gress, upon reconvening in Januar\ take prompt and vigorous steps continuing adequate unemployment lief is foreshadowed by the i*eport the American Federation's executiv council to the annual convention her The report reviews the relief situa tion, quoting figures to show that for public relief it is clear that the unem ployed are now largely depending on the federal government for su tenance. "The living standards they (the un employed) will be permitted, low enough at best, will be determined by the federal money appropriated by the next congress," the report says. The report points out that up to August 31, $150,135,000 had been ex pended from the $500,000,000 federal relief fund made available by con gress. "With a winter before us when need will unquestionably be greater than ever before, it seems probable," the reports adds, "that the remainder of this federal fund will be exhausted by February." To meet the "great need which faces the unemployed this winter," the executive council makes the follow ing recommendations: 1. That the American Federation of Labor insists on adequate relief ap propriations from federal funds by congress immediately after its recon vening in January, so that funds may be available by February when it is expected the present appropriation will be exhausted. 2. That we insist that the surplus agricultural product be made avail able for distribution to the unem ployed. 3. That the American Federation of Labor and all state and local federa tions of labor do all in their power to educate public opnion to the immen sity of the relief need this year. There is danger that taxation and appro priations for relief may not have the necessary public support, since there is widespread belief that the re-em ployment of millions has greatly re duced relief needs, and that relief needs are therefore less than last win ter. 4. That special consideration be given to the character of taxation which is being passed by state gov ernments in order to raise funds for relief. Higher incomes and sm-plus profits should be made to bear their fair share of the burden. July Relief Total in Cities Drops 9c/c Under June Washington.—The Children's Bu reau, department of labor, reported that relief expenditures from public and private funds were 9 per cent lower in July than in June of this year. The report was based on data from 120 cities and city areas. The July relief expenditures totaled $34,157,843. This was 19 per cent less than the amount spent in March, when relief demands reached their peak, but it was far above the $20, 901,016 expended by the reporting agencies in July of last. year. JUDGESBARRED From Issuing Labor Injunc tions in Nine States Washington.—Tangible progress has been made in the campaign of the American Federation of Labor to have the various states enact anti-injunc For a Complete UNION Job of JV'i- ''I' tion laws similar to the Norris-La Guaidia federal law, declared the ex ecutive council of the American Fed eration of Labor in their report to the federation's annual convention here. The Norris-La Guardia federal anti injunction law declares injunctions in labor disputes to be against the pub lic policy of the United States and prohibits federal judges from is suing them. The need of state anti-injunction laws patterned after the federal stat ute was recently illustrated by the action of judges in New York city and Flint, Mich., in issuing injunc tions against picketing. Had they been federal judges they would have been liable to impeachment for violat ing the Norris LaGuardia law. "Nine states now have anti-injunc tion laws as aproved by the Amer ican Federation of Labor," the coun cil said. "They are: California, Colo rado, Idaho, Indiana, Oregon, Penn sylvania, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming. "Six legislatures enacted the laws this year. They all follow the pro visions of the Norris-LaGuardia act. The New Hampshire supreme court declared the 'anti-yellow dog' bill un constitutional in an advisory opinion and, therefore, it did not pass the legislature. "California enacted an 'anti-yellow dog' contract law as an amendment to the anti-injunction law. Pennsylvania also enacted an 'anti-yellow dog' act. PRINTING & Typograpnical Label y '-J Amazing Values! O U PROSPERITY FURNITURE AND RUG SALE Gives the people of Hamilton and vicinity an opportunity to furnish or re-furnish at the old low prices. FURNITURE, RUGS, LAMPS HEDS, SPRINGS, MATTRESSES NOVELTIES, GAS RANGES STUDIO COUCHES, ETC., AT DRASTICALLY REDUCED PRICES Save! As Never Before BEAT THE RISE IN PRICES This store always saves you the difference on Standard Quality Furniture and Rugs HARRY STRAUSS FURN. CO. N. E. Cor. Third and Ludlow Demand Both The Pressmen's Label CI Nonpareil Printing Co 326 Market St., Phone 1296 Hamilton, Ohio Jim.'i'l-?., .,"1 4 Y "Numerous letters were sent AIR Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—A threatened strike of 650 commercial air pilots was averted at a conference of pilots and transport company heads with Chairman Wagner, of the National Labor Board. The strike had been planned in pro test against a new wage seal which became effective October 1 and which the fliers contended would have meant a reduction in wages. The transport officials and the fli ers* representatives accepted a pro posal by Senator Wagner for an in vestigation by a fact-finding commit tee, and a decision by the board which would be retroactive to October 1. The committee, which will comprise one representative each of the pilots and employers and one impartial member, will report to the Labor Board within three weeks, after which a final hearing will be held by the board. a by President Greer: to all state federa tions of labor where legislatures were in session, urging the officers to use every effort to have anli-injufl£tijfl laws-enacted." •j.% PILOTS Strike Avoided "*SJ3 1 By NRA Labor Board 1 -J